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Saved by His grace in 1974, from 9 years of professing atheism into His loving arms. Living with my husband in the middle of a mountain meadow. GRIN! Wanting to spread the good news about His redemptive plan for our lives through written media.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Where Do You See Yourself Today – Walking or Needing Some Help

Touching
the hem of His garment

Some days we
vary in strength and our walk. Like walking or hiking for exercise, some days
we can go 6 miles and be ready for more. There are then those days when the
wind blows, its icy fingers tearing past zippered coats straight into your
core. It fogs up your glasses and without them your eyeballs feel the freeze
coming on. Yes, the skies are blue and there might be those picturesque white
clouds of fluff in the sunshine but that doesn’t negate the wind blasting
through snow covered rangy peaks of the Rockies.

Those are the
days when you could use someone to carry you and place you at the feet of your
Lord “to be healed” the days when you think “if I can just touch the hem of His
garment….”

Maybe the
enemy had been badgering you with family circumstances or health issues. Maybe
you have been battling in prayer. Maybe you have been battling with
unforgiveness or carrying loads in your backpack that you could give to Jesus,
but haven’t. The only strength you have is to reach out your hand….

Wherever He entered, into villages, cities, or the
country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged Him that they might
just touchthehemof His garment. And as many astouched
Him were made well.

There is still hope in reaching out – there is ALWAYS hope in
Jesus.

In the “footsteps” place

There are days when we need Him to literally carry us because we
cannot walk on our own. We all know the illustration of the one set of
footsteps on the beach – Jesus footsteps when he carried you or me because we
just didn’t have it in us to even walk with Him hanging on.

Righteousness will go before Him, And shall make
Hisfootstepsour pathway.

Running in the
path of Jesus’ command

Once in
awhile you wake up and hit the ground running, not because you are late or have
THAT much to do but because you are SO full of His joy that to walk would not
do justice to your spirit that particular day.

Draw me away! [The
Daughters of Jerusalem] We willrunafter you . [The Shulamite] The
king has brought me into his chambers. [The
Daughters of Jerusalem] We will be glad and rejoice in you .We will remember
your lovemorethanwine. [The Shulamite] Rightly
do they love you. (New King James Version)

Immediately, when they sawHim, all
the people were greatly amazed, andrunning toHim, greetedHim. (New King James Version)

Coming boldly
before throne

There are
other days when we might find ourselves in a number of “postures” or even being
lifted or carried by Jesus or another and we remember WHO we are in Him because
of that terrible price He paid for you and for me on the tree of Calvary. It is
those days when we can come BOLDLY, even if we are being carried.

Hebrews 4:15-16

15For we do
not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in
allpoints tempted aswe are, yetwithout sin.16Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we
may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (New King James
Version)

At the foot of the cross

Where
do you find yourself today? OR are you at the foot of the cross weeping, repenting
and calling out for forgiveness from Jesus? If you are, there is absolutely no
better place to be. I KNOW He will meet you there, right where you are, because
your heart is turned towards Him.

Some
of you ask why I use the translation I do (in this piece I have used several
different ones) I am keying in on a particular word when I search for these
verses. That word might not be found in one version but is in another. My own
preference is New King James OR Amplified (wordy writer that I am) but sometimes
another translation has the word I need when I am writing. Please feel free to
look these verses up in your favorite translation.

(There
are also those times when we sense we are walking with Him, side by side in
communion or, perhaps even running or dancing with our Lord. I didn’t have time
to go into those “days” in this article. Perhaps I will soon.)